Abstract: In this thesis we present an analysis on the relationship between time and space and adventure, from two aspects which intersect. The first reflects on the use of the word adventure in an interpretation of the European past, having a positive value and associating certain events, especially the domination and exploitation of other peoples and territories, to adventure. The consequence of this interpretation is to value Eurocentrism and mitigate the violence of imperialism. The second aspect analyzes some works of adventure literature written by Emilio Salgari, the author also builds other alternatives to this literary genre. We chose to study how the author represented the European colonial domination in Asia and America in three different situations. At first, this in the book "I Robinson Italiani", we found a favorable domination of an unoccupied territory, transformed into an Italian colony discourse. In the second situation, in the books "Il Corsaro Nero" and "La Regina dei Caraibi", the author criticized the violence of the Spanish conquest through the character Yara, an Indian who witnessed the massacre of his tribe. The third situation refers to a land already conquered by the British Empire in the book "Le tigri di Mompracem", in which the character Sandokan struggled to regain their territory, taken by the English. We analyze the different places where the characters lived the adventure and what dangers they faced before the wilderness. To understand the relationship between adventure and otherness, we analyze the heroes, antagonists and the other in adventure – secondary characters who interacted with the one who lives the adventure throughout the narrative – to understand if the work of Salgari was related to racist discourse and Eurocentric period.